Aabon shebman



Patented Sept. 25, `1883.

WITNESSES i ATTORNEYS.

PATENT OFFICE.,

AARON SHERMAN,

or CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN, AssiGNoE or ONE-HALE To JEssIE SHERMAN,

OF l SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,692, dated September 25, 1883,

Application filed July 3, 1883. (No model.) j

'o all wwm/ it, may concern:

Beit known that I, AARON SHERMAN, of

Charlotte, in the county of Eaton and State o f Michigan, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Bag-Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form. a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my improved bag-holder attached to a bag. Fig. 2 i 5 is a vertical section through the same, and

Fig. 3 is a detail view. e

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to bag-holders, and more particularly to that class of bagholders which are adapted to be attached to a bag and to be scooped into the grain, .filling the bag; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the claimed.

In the accompanying drawings. the letter A i indicates the funnel, having fiat sides, making it rectangular in crossesection, and having one of its wider sides longer than the other, which side is inserted first into the grain, when the funnel is used, forming the under side, B. rIhis rectangular casing contracts toward the lower end and forms a tube, C, which is inserted into the mouth of the bag to be filled, and the narrower sides of the rectangular casing are provided with two handles, D, inclined toward the lower or rear end of the under side, B, adapting them to be conveniently grasped by the person or persons using the implement. Two pairs of ears or lugs, E, project from both sides of the tube C, and shafts or rods F are pivoted in the perforations in the same, and two bailshaped handles, G, having downward and outwardly bent hooks II upon their ends, whichfproject through longitudinal slots I in the tube, are hinged same, as hereinafter more fully described and upon these rods, the latter passing through themV outside the hooked portions. It will now be seen that when the funnel is grasped 5o from both sides by the handles, the persons using the implement standing with their faces toward the casing or funnel, and a bag has previously been drawn over the tube at the lower end, the hooks upon the lower bail* shaped handles will be forced out through the bag, holding it while the open end of the funnel is inserted into the grain, scooping the same up into the bag, the capacity of the casing or funnel being preferably the capacity of 6o the bag, so that one casing full will iillcthe bag.

To guide thepoints of the hooks and prevent them from becomingbent by the weight of the filled bag, the outwardly-bent points of the same pass through holes J in the lower end` of the tube, thus only exposing sufficient of the hooks to attach the mouth of the bag to.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the 7o United States- 1. In a bag holder, the combination of a funnel formed with a tubular lower end, hav- Aing perforated lugs upon each side and longi tudinal slots and perforations at its lower end, 7 5 with the bail-shaped handles having hooked inner ends, and rods passing through the per-v forated lugs and handles, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. A bag-holder consisting of a rectangular 8o funnel or casing, rearwardly-inclined handles,M a slotted tube at the lower end of' the casing, perforated lugs projecting from thc sides of thetube, bail-shaped handles having hooked ends, and rods passing through the perforated lugs and handles, all constructed as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim thc foregoing as my own I have hereunto afxed my signature in presence oftwo witnesses.

` AARON. SHERMAN. Witnesses:

J AMEs BRYAN, LUCINDA BRYAN. 

